New Books Network
Australian and New Zealand Studies
Anthropology February 3, 2021

Revealing the Invisible Mine

Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project

Emilia E. Skrzypek

Hosted by Alex Golub
Located amid tropical rainforest in the heart of Papua New Guinea, the Frieda River area is home to one of the biggest undeveloped gold and copper deposits in the Pacific …

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Australian and New Zealand Studies January 27, 2021

The Bible in Australia

A Cultural History

Meredith Lake

Hosted by Bede Haines
The bible and Australian society! Meredith Lake's published a new 2020 edition of The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History (NewSouth Books, 2020). It's history and sociology and reflections on religion's role on the 'Great …
Australian and New Zealand Studies January 11, 2021

A Bridge Between

Spanish Benedictine Missionary Women in Australia

Katherine Massam

Hosted by Bede Haines
Katharine Massam's A Bridge Between: Spanish Benedictine Missionary Women in Australia (ANU Press, 2020) is the first book detailing the Benedictine women who worked at New Norcia, examining their life in the …
Australian and New Zealand Studies January 5, 2021

The Convent

A City Finds Its Heart

Stuart Kells

Hosted by Bede Haines
Nuns, inmates, community vs corporation, Australia, oasis in a metropolis. The Abbotsford Convent left to languish for years after the last of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd had gone. In its …
Military History December 22, 2020

The Gallipoli Evacuation

Peter Hart

Hosted by Bob Wintermute
One of the most well-told episodes of the First World War, the 1915 Gallipoli expedition, also has its own long-ignored aspects - specifically, the story of how the Allied force …
Australian and New Zealand Studies December 21, 2020

The Ways of the Bushwalker

On Foot in Australia

Melissa Harper

Hosted by Bede Haines
Today I talked to Melissa Harper about her book The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia (NewSouth, 2020). Australians have always loved to step out in nature, whether off-track or …
Indian Religions December 3, 2020

The Indian Diaspora

Hindus and Sikhs in Australia

Jayant B. Bapat, Purushottama Bilimoria and Philip Hughes

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Since the late 1990s, the Indian community in Australia has grown faster than any other immigrant community. The Indian Diaspora has made substantial contributions to the multi-ethnic and multi-religious diversity …
Law November 25, 2020

From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage

How Australia Got Compulsory Voting

Judith Brett

Hosted by Jane Richards
In this fascinating history of Australia’s electoral system, Judith Brett makes a timely case in favour of compulsory voting. Her analysis is entertaining and enlightening, and makes a significant contribution …
Australian and New Zealand Studies November 17, 2020

Distant Sisters

Australasian Women and the International Struggle for the Vote, 1880-1914

James Keating

Hosted by Bede Haines
In the 1890s Australian and New Zealand women became the first in the world to win the vote. Buoyed by their victories, they promised to lead a global struggle for …
Popular Culture November 13, 2020

Graphic Indigeneity

Comics in the Americas and Australasia

Frederick Luis Aldama

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia (UP of Mississippi, 2020), Frederick Luis Aldama brings together comics scholars Joshua T. Anderson, Chad A. Barbour, Susan Bernardin, Mike Borkent …
Asian American Studies August 13, 2020

Possessing Polynesians

The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania

Maile Arvin

Hosted by Alex Golub
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans saw Polynesians as almost racially white, and speculated that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In Possessing …
Australian and New Zealand Studies June 23, 2020

God is Samoan

Dialogues Between Culture and Theology in the Pacific

Matt Tomlinson

Hosted by Alex Golub
Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God. In God is Samoan: Dialogues Between Culture and Theology in the Pacific (University of …
Australian and New Zealand Studies June 16, 2020

The Hilton Bombing

Evan Pederick and the Ananda Marga

Imre Salusinszky

Hosted by Matthew Thompson
"Every morning of my life in the past few years I would wake with the thought, I’m a murderer. I have no right to enjoy life.” Evan Pederick speaking to …
Australian and New Zealand Studies June 3, 2020

Self, Others and the State

Relations of Criminal Responsibility

Arlie Loughnan

Hosted by Jane Richards
Criminal responsibility is a key-organizing concept of the criminal law, but Arlie Loughnan argues that it needs re-examination. Focusing on the Australian experience, Self, Others and the State: Relations of …
Literature May 14, 2020

On Drugs

Chris Fleming

Hosted by Matthew Thompson
"After I’d finished my rapid-fire history of self-justification he paused and then said, deadpan and rural-Australian-slow: 'Right. Ok. So how is that all working out for you?'" On Drugs (Giramondo …
Australian and New Zealand Studies April 9, 2020

A Grammar of Belep

Chelsea McCracken

Hosted by Carrie Gillon
Chelsea McCracken talks about her new book A Grammar of Belep (Walter de Gruyter, 2019). McCracken is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at Dixie State University and Senior …
Australian and New Zealand Studies April 3, 2020

Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia

Jon Piccini

Hosted by Dexter Fergie
After the Second World War, an Australian diplomat was one of eight people to draft the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. And in the years that followed, Australians of many …
Australian and New Zealand Studies November 25, 2019

The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

When Total Empire Met Total War

Jeremy Yellen

Hosted by Nathan Hopson
Jeremy Yellen’s The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War (Cornell University Press, 2019) is a challenging transnational exploration of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere …
Australian and New Zealand Studies November 7, 2019

Playing for Australia

The First Socceroos, Asia, and World Football

Trevor Thompson

Hosted by Keith Rathbone
Today we are joined by Trevor Thompson, a journalist who has reported on association football in Australia and around the world since the 1980s. He is also the author of …
Art October 24, 2019

Coral Empire

Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity

Ann Elias

Hosted by Lance Thurner
With the threats of sea water warming and ocean acidification, coral reefs have become both a fire alarm and a barometer for the dangers of human induced climate change. We …